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Tonight's live US presidential debate is looking set to be a must-watch - after a damaged but defiant Donald Trump went on the offensive against Hilary Clinton as he sought to deflect fallout from obscene remarks he made about women.

The Republican presidential nominee tweeted a link on Sunday to an interview with Juanita Broaddrick, whose lawsuit against Bill Clinton accusing him of rape was dismissed in 2001.

Criminal charges were never filed. Mr Clinton has denied the allegations.

Mr Trump's risky move, hours before a critical presidential debate, comes as he tries to save a flailing campaign facing unprecedented opposition from within his own party.

Mr Trump has long hinted he would raise Mr Clinton's sexual history at debates. The second debate starts at 2am on Monday morning our time.

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More than two dozen Republican office holders have declared since Friday that they will not vote for Mr Trump.

He is struggling to overcome deep scepticism among women about his temperament and qualifications to be commander in chief.

Nigel Farage, who has found himself the leader of Ukip again, has entered the row, saying the comments were "ugly", but stated that women also make remarks they would not want to see reported.

He said: "Look, this is alpha male boasting. It's the kind of thing, if we are being honest, that men do. They sit around and have a drink and they talk like this.

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"By the way, quite a lot of women say things amongst themselves that they would not want to see on Fox News, or the front page of a newspaper."

Labour deputy leader Tom Watson said: "Nigel Farage's description of Donald Trump's appalling remarks as 'alpha male boasting' and his insistence that talking about women in these terms is 'the kind of thing men do' betray a very troubling attitude to women.

"There are very few men who would describe demeaning women in this way as 'boasting'. Nigel Farage seems to be enjoying his new job as the UK cheerleader for Trump, but in so doing he devalues himself and his party in the minds of the decent people of our country."